Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world /
Examines how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than twenty years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | Examines how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than twenty years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural Revolution. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781451642773 1451642776 |